{"id":75265,"date":"2024-09-07T05:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T04:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=75265"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:59:15","slug":"kapuzinerkirche-capuchin-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/kapuzinerkirche-capuchin-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Kapuzinerkirche Capuchin Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"#tickets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/imperialcrypttickets.jpg\" alt=\"Church frescoes\" class=\"wp-image-72538\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Imperial Crypt is home to centuries of history (and many visitors). But the Kapuzinerkirche church above offers a place of refuge from the turmoil of tourism with regular concerts a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Active monastery church for the Capuchin order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dates back to the early 1600s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Central location<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Attend a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/capuchins-church-concerts-tickets-l238202\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_Capuch\" rel=\"sponsored\">classical concert<\/a>* at the church<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/kapuzinergruft\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"245\">The Imperial Crypt<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/churches\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28720\">Churches in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monks and music<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch2.jpg\" alt=\"Front fa\u00e7ade of the Kapuzinerkirche\" class=\"wp-image-75267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The frescoes above the entrance provide a pictorial representation of Francis of Assisi&#8217;s Portiuncula vision)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wander into Neuer Markt square, and you discover Vienna in microcosm: a curious mix of bedfellows spanning the centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A luxury brand store and four-star hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An 18th-century fountain and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/eatingdrinking\/cafespubsbars\/oberlaa-neuer-markt\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"53975\">one of my favourite caf\u00e9s<\/a> in a similarly-aged building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even, as it turns out, a monastery of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin at the southern entrance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monks still provide pastoral and charitable care over 400 years after the Kapuzinerkloster&#8217;s foundation in the early 1600s through the generosity of Empress Anna of Tyrol (1585-1618).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch1.jpg\" alt=\"Wrought iron decoration above a church entrance\" class=\"wp-image-75266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Iron-wrought grid above the entrance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The monastery&#8217;s Kapuzinerkirche (Capuchin church) faces out onto Neuer Markt, its large cross, wall mural, and round window setting it apart from the secular buildings around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most tourists tend to skip the church and its entrance portal as they focus on the adjacent glass doors, since these lead down into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/kapuzinergruft\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"245\">Kapuzinergruft or Imperial crypt<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Capuchin monks remain guardians of the crypt, where many famous Habsburg Emperors and Empresses find their last resting place in the sarcophagi and coffins within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though most people prefer to explore the Kapuzinergruft as a place resonant with history, the church itself deserves its own acclaim. Both for the architecture and ambience as a working institution. But also for the classical concerts held within.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The church itself<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch2.jpg\" alt=\"Kapuzinerkirche drawn around 1835\" class=\"wp-image-75038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch2.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The Kapuzinerkirche in a picture published around 1835 by Carl Graf Vasquez; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 28813; excerpt reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many older churches in Vienna, the interior and fa\u00e7ade underwent various changes through the centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The picture above reveals, for example, that the wall adornments above today&#8217;s windows are new. They appeared in 1936, though a cross and fresco decorated the outside in the early Baroque era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s church brings immediate relief from the flow of people in the square and crypt. The rectangular layout, white vaulted roof and white walls seem to offer space to breathe, the contrast to outside enhanced by the stillness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Altars and side chapels add a touch more ecclesiastical decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of the Capuchin church from 1880\" class=\"wp-image-75037\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch1.jpg 338w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/capuchinchurch1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Photo of the church around 1880 taken by the Michael Frankenstein &amp; Comp. photo studio; Wien Museum Inv.-Nr. 78079\/1222\/3; excerpt reproduced with permission under the terms of the CC0 licence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main altar, for example, impresses with its gorgeous inlaid wood and dates back to 1735. Its 1751 central painting offers another representation of Francis of Assisi&#8217;s Portiuncula vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Be sure to view the small Piet\u00e0kapelle chapel on the north side with its remarkable baroque altar and grieving marble statuary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In front of the altar, a glass plate in the floor offers a view of the coffin of the Capuchin friar and saint, Marco d&#8217;Aviano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the saint&#8217;s many achievements, he played a key diplomatic role in bringing military relief to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/culture\/the-1683-siege-of-vienna\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29264\">1683 siege of Vienna<\/a>. The entrance area has further relevance to military history, with various memorials to the fallen of World War I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The concerts<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch3.jpg\" alt=\"Concert placard in front of a church\" class=\"wp-image-75268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/capuchinchurch3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(The church hosts regular concerts)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/classical-concert\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5359\">many of Vienna&#8217;s central churches<\/a>, the Capuchin church also serves as a venue for classical performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For much of the year, the Wiener Kaiserquartett ensemble holds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/capuchins-church-concerts-tickets-l238202\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=LG_Capuch\" rel=\"sponsored\">regular evening concerts<\/a>* featuring around an hour of light classical music by the likes of Mozart, Haydn, and Schubert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Advent season, when Vienna comes alive with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/christmas-lights\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"884\">lights<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/christmas-markets\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1680\">markets<\/a>, the quartet switches to seasonal music with both carols and classical pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"tickets\">Tickets &amp; visitor tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The church is open to the public with no charge but be aware that services and similar may be on at various times, of course. Tickets for the concerts may have an option to also include entrance to the adjoining Imperial crypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Booking service provided by Tiqets.com*, who I am an affiliate of)<\/p><div data-tiqets-widget=\"availability\" data-layout=\"full\" data-orientation=\"vertical\" data-venue-id=\"238202\" data-partner=\"visitingvienna\" data-tq-campaign=\"AW_Capuch\"><\/div><script defer src=\"https:\/\/widgets.tiqets.com\/loader.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Nothing on your dates? Try some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiqets.com\/en\/concerts-opera-vienna-tickets-l206741\/?partner=visitingvienna&amp;tq_campaign=MSconcerts\" rel=\"sponsored\">alternative concerts<\/a>*)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get to the church<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Neuer Markt makes up part of the pedestrianised centre of Vienna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subway: the church lies about halfway between two stations\u2026Stephansplatz on the U1 and U3 lines and Karlsplatz on the U1, U2 and U4 lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tram\/bus: a short walk into the old town from the Oper\/Karlsplatz stop on the 1, 2, D and 71 tram lines. The 2A old town bus service also stops nearby: get out at the K\u00e4rntner Stra\u00dfe or Albertinaplatz stops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Tegetthoffstra\u00dfe 2 | <a href=\"https:\/\/wien.kapuziner.at\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1wLoIQ3IiqBmZjY29Rx6Q8N6DgTQYDKlH\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Capuchin&#8217;s Kapuzinerkirche offers a place of refuge from the busy central square outside with regular concerts a bonus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sights","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75265"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82780,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75265\/revisions\/82780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}